"An official document outlining dozens of data breaches from within the unit handling applications from Afghans wanting to flee the Taliban and come to the UK describes how a laptop screen was left in view on {a} train during an incident in March 2023. An officially sensitive personal email relating to such Afghans was also accidentally sent to the Civil Service Sports & Social Club a group for all civil service and public sector employees that has 140,000 members in August 2023, records show."
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Multiple data breaches and administrative errors within UK defence and resettlement units exposed sensitive personal information of Afghans who assisted UK forces. Incidents included a laptop left with confidential information visible on a train in March 2023 and an officially sensitive email accidentally sent to the Civil Service Sports & Social Club in August 2023, a group with 140,000 members. The breaches form part of a wider pattern of government blunders that placed private data in the wrong hands and followed a major August 2023 breach that triggered secret relocations of thousands of Afghans to the UK, raising serious safety concerns.
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